Favorite Outdoors/Survival/Western Movie

breakthru62

breakthru62

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I know this has had to been done before, and I apologize to those who get tired of these type of posts.

But anyhow..........

I have been doing the blockbuster online video rentals cause I'm stuck inside quite a bit right now. I'm bored with the movies that are out right now. Do you guys have some recommendations for some survival/outdoor/western type flicks??

Old or new, I don't really care. I dig pretty much any era of movies. One of my all-time favorites is "Death Hunt". What an awesome flick. Don't tell anyone, but I thought "Legends of the Fall" was badass. That movie had everything.
Action, Romance, Revenge, War, Guns, Knives, Family, Montana, Hunting, Bears, Boot-Legging, Pretty Women, An Indian Type Spirit.

I tried doing a seach but mostly came up with knives in movies type threads and posts.
I'm sure there is a thread out there that has got a bunch of this covered, I just couldn't find it.

Thanks,

Scott

Please feel free to offer up any good movies that aren't related to what I asked.
 
Hey breakthru62,

Here are a few suggestions off the top of my head:

The Edge, with Anthony Hopkins, is a great survival film that features a custom lockback and a few encounters with a grizzly. The only real flaw is the script, which has Alec Baldwin's character saying "Charles" every 20 seconds.

Dances With Wolves is a classic. Not much in the way of 'survival' per se, but a good period piece, just like Legends of the Fall (but with additional tomahawk content).

For something a bit darker, but with plenty of knife and tracking skills content, try The Hunted. What it lacks in plot, it makes up for in moccasins.

For something a bit colder and quasi-apocalyptic, try The Day After Tomorrow.

and for some classic Cold War propaganda, you can't go wrong with Red Dawn. It has stereotypes, Buck knife product placement, and wolverines.

On a different note, if you haven't already seen it, I recommend renting a boxed set of Les Stroud's Survivorman. Excellent stuff.

Happy viewing, and all the best,

- Mike
 
Lonesome Dove is my favorite movie overall and is probably the best western ever made. At nearly six hours long it's a good way to kill an afternoon.
 
How about Man in the Wilderness?

In the early 1800's, a group of fur trappers and Indian traders are returning with their goods to civilisation and are making a desperate attempt to beat the oncoming winter. When guide Zachary Bass is injured in a bear attack, they decide he's a goner and leave him behind to die. When he recovers instead, he swears revenge on them and tracks them and their paranoiac expedition leader down.
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mdauben-that movie sounds like it's based on the true story of Hugh Glass. I read the book when I was in High School.

I just saw First Blood again the other night. It's got some pretty cool traps in it, including the one that Les Stroud tried to use on a hog in Borneo.

Any of the movies from the Lonesome Dove series are good.

If you like westerns a good way to find them would be look up the main actors. Audey Murphy or Randolf Scott are two who IMO never made a bad movie.

And since it appears that no post on this thread can get by without mentioning it Jeremiah Johnson is an excellent movie. I caught it on the other day and showed my wife the bear skinning scene, she laughed for 20 minutes.

David
 
I guess suggesting "Into the Wild" will result in a beating, but I liked it. I would not consider it a "how to survive - movie" for obvious reasons.
 
One of my favorite westerns...

Once upon a time in the West.

Glenn
 
The Hunted, Jeremiah Johnson, Pale Rider, High Plains Drifter, Unforgiven, and one of my absolute favs-The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly.
 
Razorsharp244 said:
I guess suggesting "Into the Wild" will result in a beating, but I liked it. I would not consider it a "how to survive - movie" for obvious reasons.
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Well when I read this I choked on my coffee and sprayed it all over my new LCD I laughed so hard... but your right it is a great ummmm anti survival movie...

I like Cast away a great deal, as well as all the others listed here....
 
Jeremiah Johnson

is for me at the top of the list.

Man In the Wilderness and A Man Named Horse series was good also.

My Fave Westerns

Apaloosa - Ed and Viggo are just cool.
Open Range - Is there a better Old Cowboy than Robert Duvall?
The Outlaw Josey Wales - Clint's best.
Unforgiven - Clint's second best.
Quigley Down Under - wish I could shoot a Sharps like that.
Crossfire Trail - Can anybody ID Beau Dorn's rifle in this flick?
Broken Trail - I always thought Thomas Hayden Church was a goof, he's cool in this one.
The Quick and the Dead - Gimmicky but fun.

Anything with John Wayne will get a Thumbs Up. I liked Red River and The Cowboys best.
 
Apocalypto was an interesting movie, the main character worked with what he had. Not a western, but a good survival movie. Watching what my ancestors did to survive on the steppes was fun, in the movie Mongol. Not really survival, sort of western, working the hard land, Milagro Beanfield War. A few minutes of survival in the backcountry at the end, but a great look at the southwest. If for nothing more than the scenery.
 
Last of the Mohicans
Broken Trail
Crossfire Trail
Open Range
Silverado
Tombstone
The Missing
Just about any John Wayne or Clint Eastwood western.
 
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